Essays about: "peace resistance"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 32 essays containing the words peace resistance.

  1. 21. "The City is Yours": Desegregation and Sharing Space in Post-Conflict Belfast

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Alec Forss; [2018]
    Keywords : borders; space; ethnicity; peace wall; interface; Belfast; identity; shared space; segregation; Protestants; Catholics; paramilitary;

    Abstract : This study examines how borders are socially produced and deconstructed in “post-conflict” North Belfast. Twenty years after the signing of the historic Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, a peace model lauded for the resolution of conflicts worldwide, Belfast today remains a highly divided city with the existence of numerous segregation barriers, among them so-called peace walls, physically separating Protestant from Catholic neighbourhoods. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Political Ecology of Peace: Qualitative study on indigenous people´s peacebuilding in the post-conflict Colombia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Ana Bolena Chamie Gandur; [2018]
    Keywords : Indigenous; peacebuilding; resistance; development; deconstruction; Colombia; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study examines indigenous peacebuilding in Colombia in line with the liberal peace project, which frames the territorial peacebuilding in Colombia. The need for exploring alternatives to the peacebuilding paradigm as an emblem of the liberal peace is urged; as it attempts to achieve a standardized peace while developing war-torn countries. READ MORE

  4. 23. Stolen Childhoods: Remembering the Former Child Soldiers Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Josephine Mittag; [2018]
    Keywords : human rights; child soldiers; peace; recognition; reparations; transitional justice; Lord s Resistance Army; Uganda; State responsibility;

    Abstract : The prohibition on the use of child soldiers is widely recognized. Still, it is estimated that 60,000 children were abducted and forced to take part in the internal armed conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. READ MORE

  5. 24. Building resilience through food : the case of the Network of Agroecological Peasants' Markets of Valle del Cauca (Red MAC), Colombia

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of People and Society

    Author : Camilo Andres Ardila Galvis; [2016]
    Keywords : Alternative Food Networks; social-ecological resilience; agroecology; food systems; collective action; agro-biocultural diversity; Colombia;

    Abstract : The dominance of conventional (chemical and industrial) agriculture has eroded the ecological, economic and socio-cultural conditions to sustain production for a growing population, undermining humanity´s capacity to feed itself (Gliessman, 2007; Altieri & Toledo, 2011). As a consequence, we have a decoupled global food system: the social is decoupled from the ecological; farmers are decoupled from the land; farmers and consumers are decoupled from each other; and culture is decoupled from agri-culture. READ MORE

  6. 25. Situating Gender in a Postnational Military: An Analysis of Changing Gender Attitudes in Peacekeeping Operations

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik

    Author : Marcus Nilsson; [2016]
    Keywords : NCGM; SCR 1325; WPS; peacekeeping; security; Afghanistan; ISAF; NATO; conflict; gender; postnational; human security; critical security; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis looks at the Nordic Centre for Gender in Military Operations and sees how the centre constructs its own identity to align with the discourse of postna¬tional defense, and how it evaluates NATOs peacekeeping operation in Afghani¬stan. Through this, the thesis aims to analyse the hegemonic struggle between the discourses of traditional military structure and the cosmopolitan postnational de¬fense. READ MORE